Meet the 2024 SANDSWA Travel Grant Winner

By Madeline McCurry-Schmidt  The San Diego Association of Science Writers (SANDSWA) is pleased to announce that Swetha Kasetty Ramakrishnan has received the 2024 SANDSWA Travel Grant. This $500 grant will help fund Ramakrishnan’s trip to Raleigh, NC, this fall for the ScienceWriters 2024 conference, hosted by the National Association of Science Writers (NASW) and the …

Exploring the Ocean: SANDSWA Tours Scripps Institution of Oceanography

By Swetha Kasetty Ramakrishnan SANDSWA invited us to tour the renowned Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. The event was organized by Brittany Hook, a member of the Scripps Communications team and a SANDSWA board member. We enjoyed an opportunity to visit the Ellen Browning Scripps Memorial Pier, a research facility normally closed …

Building a Sustainable Tomorrow: Highlights from the IEEE Sustain Tech Leadership Forum

By Neil Thompson At the Hilton San Diego Bayfront Hotel, an inaugural conference was taking place. It was the IEEE Sustain Tech Leadership Forum, and I was lucky enough to attend. Presented by IEEE’s largest societies (Power and Energy, Communications, Computer, and Signal Processing), the 2-day forum featured a selection of speakers and panels talking …

Bright Ideas: Highlights from SPIE Optics + Photonics

By Neil Thompson The annual conference SPIE Optics + Photonics recently took place in San Diego, and it did not disappoint. Hosted by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, scientists, engineers, and researchers descended upon the Convention Center, and I was there to take in the event.  The poster presentations had topics that …